Two spaces is wrong.
— Farhad Manjoo explains why putting two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence is wrongwrongwrong.
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Two spaces is wrong.
— Farhad Manjoo explains why putting two spaces after a period at the end of a sentence is wrongwrongwrong.
I was taught to use two spaces but I always thought it looked stupid so I only ever used one. Reading someone’s writing...
I was totally taught that two spaces was correct. It’s a habit that I can’t seem to break as I’ve been typing this way...
I was taught to use two spaces (as well as two spaces following a colon), so I’m actually kind of surprised that it’s...
Last year, my roommate and one of my friends (whose papers I was the official editor for), would do this. It is one of...
Spacing before punctuation is an old typewriting convention, more popular in Europe. In some languages it’s still...
How strange. I have never heard of people using two spaces after a period. I mean, that might be due to the fact that...
No, but Mike, you see, that’s all fine and dandy on your blog, or for your own personal writing or whatever. I couldn’t...
In a professional setting, I’ll stick with what I learned in Freshman Comp. When writing for enjoyment, I do what I...
For professional writing, I thank god for find and replace. For anything else, screw it. I like two spaces.
See, it’s so weird to me that people DON’T put a second space. I always got major points taken off for not putting the...
I fail to see how it reflects IDIOCY on someone’s part when they were instructed by their typing teachers to type two...
Oh. My. Flying. Spaghetti. Monster. There is almost no bigger pet peeve for me than people who put two goddamn spaces...
I’m on the other side of this argument …I can’t make myself type with two spaces…I haven’t used two spaces since middle...
SCREW YOU ALL! TYPEWRITER FTW! (I always double-space. But then, I have 18 typewriters in my house. Go figure…)...
I’m not listening to your liberal media propaganda. TWO SPACES 4 LYFE.
BLASPHEMY! BLASPHEMY! BLASPHEMY! (throw holy water over all you bitches)
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